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The Dilemmas of Maker Culture http://t.co/jdnYLtEnsQ - 1 views

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  • I want to consider some of the intriguing challenges and dilemmas (educational, legal, moral, and ethical) all this will increasingly pose in the years to come.
  • The consensus answer was that the emphasis should be on collaboration (learning with others, working with others—both keys to much of the advancement of the maker culture), learning how to think (specific subject matter is less important, with an important exception noted below), and being able to think in a systemic way (seeing how things fit together).
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 24 May 15
       
      Surely, this isn't "news" to anyone, is it? Back in the "dark ages" of computing education, we were struggling with these very SAME issues!
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  • The consensus on what's important for older kids and adults is concise: coding.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 24 May 15
       
      This is precisely the reason WHY I want to get Maker Education into our learning experiences as a springboard for motivating kids to want to learn HOW TO CODE!
  • And with the open-source distribution of this 3-D print gun design, you've in one stroke wiped out any gun-control law in the world.
  • The maker movement may be one of the better engines for developing a set of ethical guidelines, because we don't have the kind of experience that can really teach us. We have myth. We have classic traditions, and religions, and ancient philosophies that are useful and need to be examined and embraced. But, the kind of power—the kind of ability to create and recreate—that we increasingly have access to, will necessitate moving beyond what we were thinking about 2,000 years ago. It will necessitate a re-examination of where our responsibilities lie—and to whom we are responsible. And from contact I've had with people in the open-source bioscience movement ... I see that people really are really thinking hard about the responsibility we have to fellow humans, to ecosystems, to the planet, and to the future."
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 24 May 15
       
      This may be the "bigger" reason to encourage Maker Education: to get us to think about what we SHOULD NOT make rather than to be able to make whatever we can!
  • Thomas Ho on 24 Apr 15
     
    lots to think about!
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